Not too long ago, a thread in the Coffeehouse was posted asking for your IE9 questions for Dean Hachamovitch, VP of Engineering for Internet Explorer. Thank you for asking such great questions, Niners! We didn't have time cover all of them, but we did manage to get through several of them (and…

Web Sandbox is a project from
Live Labs, a group focused on Internet technologies. Dragos Manolescu (who worked on Live Labs and Political Streams) and Scott Isaacs (who worked on Windows Live Gadgets and is credited with the creation of
DHTML) made the initial project pitch. Since then the Web…

IE team General Manager Dean Hachamovitch and IE Test Manager Jason Upton sit down with me to discuss the significance of today's
IE 8 RC1 release. What did the IE team learn from the Beta 2 release? What changes did they make in response to customer feedback? Will the IE team still take and act…

The IE team has been very hard at work on IE 8 for the past several months and they hit a huge milestone last Friday evening. The IE dev team checked in a bunch of code that included several new features implemented
in the core rendering engine that enable IE to pass the
ACID 2 test! This is…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch and…

The IIS WebDAV extension module incorporates new features that enable web authors to publish content easier than before, and offers web administrators more security and deployment options.
Windows Server 2008 R2 incorporates the WebDAV extension module feature. All you have to do is to enable…

Hi, this is Jon Udell. In this first installment of my new Microsoft Conversations series I got together with Chris Wilson. He's been involved with Internet Explorer and with web standards
for over a decade. We talked about the history and evolution of IE, about Ajax, about ways of extending the…

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE
9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what
they're working on. Here, IE GM Dean Hachamovitch introduces some of the key advances…

Leaflets are mobile apps for your iPhone, written completely using web standards. Conventional wisdom says that you need to use special SDKs or runtimes to take full advantage of mobile or produce professional-looking rich UI. But the guys at Blue Flavor have proven that it's possible to build a…

Opera is the 4th most popular PC-based browser, with high usage share in Northern and Eastern Europe. They are also the browser for Nintendo Wii and 100 million mobile devices. Opera is well-known for excellent standards support -- their CTO invented CSS, and they are often the first to implement…